10/23/2025
Marie Nemes-Crawford, Editor
Oct. 30: Andrea & Greg Tipping from Tipco about “AI”
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Presiding: President Rob Radcliff
Invocation: Norm Wilson
Greeter: Warren Spangler
Piano: Ellery Elick
Song Leader: Paula Routt – “Shine on Harvest Moon”; “”Sing Rotarians”
Attendees – Ankrom, Blanton, Brown, C.Chamberlain, Crawford, Driesbach, Droste, Elick, Foster, B&T Gibson, Hedges, Horning, Justinger, Kitchen, Lambert, Maroscher, McCrady, McNemar, G&S Montgomery, Poling, Radcliff, Reitano, Rhodes, Riegel, Robinson, Routt, Sneed, Spangler, B.Tootle, D.Webb, Weller, K.Wilson, N.Wilson, D.Wolfe, Saunders, Fife, T.Wilson
Students: missing today
Guests: Charlie Hedges brought along Fred Schroeder again (he’d had such a nice time before) and John Lambert introduced Jesse Burke branch manager for Circleville (and part of the corporate membership)
New Members added today: Tim Williams, superintendent of Logan Elm, prior Rotarian, sponsored by Daryl Wolfe. Jason Fife, sponsored by Ty Ankrom, is superintendent of Westfall schools, 30 years in education, resides in Chillicothe with wife and 5 children.
Club Announcements:
- Auction last Ice Cream tub: $75 bid from Eric Liggett was the winning one! Enjoy.
- Road Clean Up was completed before Pumpkin Show by Bob Tootle, Chris Mullins, Daryl Wolfe, Rob Radcliff, David Crawford
- Pumpkin Show Booth report:
- Number of pie pieces sold – 2,080
- Number of 2-litters of root beer used and purchased – 135 bottles (our root beer collection bottle covered all the cost – plus alittle more)
- Gallons of ice cream sold – 210 gallons
- Numbers of credit card transactions – 976 for almost $7,500 in purchases
- 32% of all money was credit cards
- Tuesday night was the best it’s been
- $23,000 in sales with $15,500 profit
- 61 big wheel race tickets were turned in and 23 pre-sale tickets turned in
- Thursday and Friday night Daryl and Rob ordered pies around Columbus with Rob’s son-in-law picking them up
- “Gift of Hope” boxes: Our $5,120 was part of over $11,000 donated for the Nightbirde Foundation – our boxes were donated to Berger and pictures are coming. Thank you to Tony & Vickie Robinson; Rob & Dodie Radcliff; Missi Rhodes, Bob Sneed, David & Marie Crawford for joining the event at Pickaway-Ross with Sunrise Rotary and both Chillicothe clubs.
- Sock-tober! We are collecting until the 30th. Hats, scarves, gloves, underwear
- Fourth Monday – Community Kitchen is this Monday, 4:00pm Presbyterian church
- Oct. 27th – 7:00-9:00pm at OCU – Trunk or Treat with sensory hour from 6:00-7:00pm
- Oct. 28th – 5:00-6:00pm downtown Trick-or-Treat in front of MicroSystems to had out whistles – come help and hear the joy all around town
- Turkey Trot – November 27th, 9:00am. We are sponsors – sign up for fun morning
- See Gary Montgomery to buy a wreath for $17 a piece – Wreaths Across America
- Blessings in a Backpack fundraiser – Zwicker House for purse auction – Dec. 2nd. See Paula Routt for tickets ($25 which includes food)
SAA: Bob Foster
- Birthdays/anniversaries
- A lot of fun trivia which built on movies and wars and sanctions on Russia and literature
Scholarship Drawing: There was a drawing with Rob Radcliff winning the day’s pot, but not the big one.
Program: Andy Bull from Pickaway County Health Department
- Health department has many avenues
- Septic system checks
- Restaurant inspections
- Pumpkin show review of every single vendor which 60% are out of county. 262 mobile inspections completed. One food inspector on staff, with six more added for the week. One monkey bite reported.
- Clinical Division: immunizations and mobile health clinic
- Environmental health: licensed facilities are tattoo businesses, restaurants, camp grounds, septic systems
- Mosquito trapping for West Nile Virus testing
- School inspections
- Working with different grants: Emergency preparedness; Opioid response (75 last year with 25 entering treatment; Safe Splash program for disability water safety; driver education assistance; Get Vaccinated; Retail food inspection training
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The Presidential charity is Soldiers Monumental Society – caring for the graves of our service men and women